Lots going on about AI policy right now (+ lots more to come). To help make sense of it all, my colleagues at CSET do deep-dives into AI workforce development, the impact of AI on cyber, US-China competition, military applications, bio risk, and more. Check em out below: bsky.app/starter-pack...

In a new publication, @samlai.bsky.social, @benimmo.bsky.social, Derek Ruths and @lageneralista.ca lay out four key questions that underpin successful measurement of changes caused by GenAI:

Measuring Changes Caused by Generative Artificial Intelligence: Setting the Foundations

Informed policy that leads to beneficial change is extremely challenging to develop without being able to measure the material impacts of GenAI.

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This Friday (Jan 3rd) is the deadline to apply to be in the 2nd cohort of @goodauth.bsky.social fellows: goodauthority.org/news/goodaut... Please share with scholars who want to bring insights from political science to a broader audience.

Good Authority fellows program now open for applications!

Join the team at Good Authority! Our 2025-2026 fellow program is now accepting applications.

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Wrote a piece in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on some of the lessons that Meta’s Q3 threat report brings back to the surface in online IO: 1. Tension between virality & opsec 2. Experimentation is ongoing 3. Variation in defenses creates arbitrage dynamics 4. Line btwn overt & covert is blurry

Old Meets New in Online Influence | TechPolicy.Press

Josh Goldstein writes that now is the time to learn from the influence operators and experiment with new reporting practices.

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David Agranovich@dagrano.bsky.social · 2y ago

We've just released our Q3 Adversarial Threat Report. Being part of the team creating the threat disruption discipline has been the high point of my last 6 years at Meta. The report covers influence operations and adversarial ops we've detected and disrupted in the last quarter. Some key takeaways:

🚀🏛️🚀 Introducing AGORA, ETO's new explorer for the AI governance landscape - with plain-English summaries, full text, and thematic tags for AI laws and policies around the world, from D.C. to Sacramento to Beijing 🌎 🗺️ agora.eto.tech

What's it like to build platform policies in real time, as new waves of users pour in? @aaron.bsky.team pulls back layers on @katieharbath.bsky.social's podcast with quite interesting examples about the challenges that have come on the radar at Bluesky (copyright, spam, youth verification, etc.)

Katie Harbath@katieharbath.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky's VP of Trust and Safety Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team joins me on the Impossible Tradeoffs podcast to discuss how he and the company are managing the surge of users since the U.S. election. 🎧 Listen Now! anchorchange.substack.com/p/blueskys-a...

Oxford dictionary's word of the year: "brain rot." @shiraovide.bsky.social prefers another one from the shortlist: "slop." “Spammers are opportunists,” I shared. “They’re constantly asking: What are people online interested in, and what technologies are available?”

Sorry, Oxford dictionary nerds. This is the real word of the year.

The verbal encapsulation of 2024 explains everything from “shrimp Jesus” to disgusting viral recipes and clickbait headlines.

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Digital identity is going to be a hugely important space in the next few years. A lot of complaints in this thread highlight the reasons why.

Paul Frazee@pfrazee.com · 2y ago

There's a whole lot of conversation still to be had about proving identity, but just want to call out that this option is available right now (and super cool to see!) The only way Dylan could get a nytimes-dot-com handle like this is if nytimes set it up!

Starter pack of ppl working in influence operations, disinformation, propaganda, information environment space. This is an iteration of a list I maintained in the bad place called “disinformation braintrust.” I’m selective here to avoid the bs artists. Lemme know if I missed ppl go.bsky.app/4URqqgz

Thanks @justinhendrix.bsky.social for coming to @cset.bsky.social today to chat with the analysis team about all things pitching & publishing in the tech and democracy space. We’ll be following @techpolicypress.bsky.social in the year ahead!